Same should go for Israel too… But you know, they buy lots of weapons from their sponsors.
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aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Personally I’m glad the sanctions have some bite. You can’t expect to just keep living your life as you wish when your country is obliterating its neighbors and disrupting stability worldwide.
clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 month ago
You know there is a massive difference between the war that Russia started and the war that Hamas started.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Yes, the difference being that one is a war and the other is just plain old genocide.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Yup. I recall how the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs published new guidelines for digging mass graves in late 2021. One of many pieces of evidence pointing towards genocidal intent. Bucha at the latest should have made Putin’s goals in Ukraine more than clear to anyone.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Hamas didn’t exist during the nakba.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 month ago
There is a difference between a war and a conflict. Hamas did not start this conflict, but they started this war.
koper@feddit.nl 1 month ago
And how exactly is banning these contributors supposed to stop the invasion?
aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
When Russian citizens understand there are direct consequences to them, Russian citizens stop supporting Putin’s actions.
koper@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Putin couldn’t care less about the support from some random programmers. Be realistic, what do you expect them to do? Take up arms? Protest and get imprisoned? Vote in the sham elections?
Targeting random civilians in hopes of political change is the strategy of terrorists.
aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
lol, right, this is terrorism!
basmati@lemmus.org 1 month ago
So Putin is a democratically elected leader now? You people have been shouting that he’s a dictator since your owners told you to hate Russians.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Dictators need the support of their citizens as well. None of them have truly unlimited power.
Every single one of them has to keep people both afraid and happy enough to maintain control. This includes various domestic interest groups (from peasants to members of the military) as well as influential individuals (a small number of key cadres, media figures, intellectuals and generals), in addition to foreign powers. It’s a constant and highly dangerous balancing act, because if there is one thing that is exceptionally rare among autocratic regimes, it’s a peaceful transition of power. No “president for life” wants to share the fate of Muammar Gaddafi.
You people have been shouting that he’s a dictator
Yes, because he is one. Nobody in their right mind would deny this.
since your owners told you to hate Russians.
This is ridiculous. So people in the free West are slaves now? And no, we don’t hate Russians, just Putin, his cronies, his soldiers who murder and rape their way through Ukraine - and his lap dogs who are busy regurgitating primitive “russophobia” propaganda talking points, either for free or in the vain hope that they don’t get sent in the meat grinder.
TehPers@beehaw.org 1 month ago
It’s supposed to put the LF in line with sanctions rather than at risk. They have no control over the invasion (aside from pushing a malicious patch that shuts down all Linux systems or something)
koper@feddit.nl 1 month ago
So then you agree that there is no reason to be “glad” about this?
TehPers@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Is this supposed to be a leading question? I’m not making the decisions, but there’s no reason to be happy about losing contributors in any case.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Bruh I live in the USA. The state has been murdering people and disrupting stability since its inception.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 month ago
Hey guys we’re going to blow up the maternity hospital and shell the nuclear plant: I sleep
You can’t work on your software project anymore: REAL SHIT
ravhall@discuss.online 1 month ago
The author seems to complain a lot and not blame much on their shitty country.